Not so far away from us lies a city of challenges, a land that fights for water, freedom, sanitation, hygiene and a lot more on a daily basis. Thousands of people die in Dhaka every year due to water-borne diseases and the vicious cycle continues.
But that isn’t all of it. The Megacity also struggles from the pressure of swelling population, with some 400,000 new residents arriving each year from rural areas in search of a better lifestyle.
The city thus stands vulnerable to many difficulties — skyrocketing real estate prices, exponentially growing slum areas, poor housing quality, proper sanitation, traffic jams, air pollution, broken roads, inadequate clean water, electrical blackouts, and terrible governance, to name a few.
Relevant to the aforementioned, Dhaka recently witnessed one of the most horrific sights, and it was literally a bloodbath.
On the occasion of Eid-al-Adha on Tuesday, rainfall and animal sacrifices around the city created a dreadful scene of blood streaming across the city streets.
Due to the poor drainage system and extreme case of waterlogging, roads in many parts of the city were submerged in blood.
“I felt I was walking through a post-apocalyptic neighbourhood,” said Atish Saha, a Dhaka-based artist. “To be honest, I was scared. It was an image of mass violence that shouldn’t ever be experienced.”
Particularly jarring was said to be the sight of families, including infants, wading into the flood in celebratory “Eid day” moods. “It made me speechless,” he said.
Saha said the ritual slaughter was continuing in parts of the city on Wednesday.
The waters had mostly receded by the morning but bitumen and dirt roads still had a reddish hue and were littered with animal entrails.
But that isn’t all of it. The Megacity also struggles from the pressure of swelling population, with some 400,000 new residents arriving each year from rural areas in search of a better lifestyle.
The city thus stands vulnerable to many difficulties — skyrocketing real estate prices, exponentially growing slum areas, poor housing quality, proper sanitation, traffic jams, air pollution, broken roads, inadequate clean water, electrical blackouts, and terrible governance, to name a few.
Relevant to the aforementioned, Dhaka recently witnessed one of the most horrific sights, and it was literally a bloodbath.
On the occasion of Eid-al-Adha on Tuesday, rainfall and animal sacrifices around the city created a dreadful scene of blood streaming across the city streets.
Due to the poor drainage system and extreme case of waterlogging, roads in many parts of the city were submerged in blood.
“I felt I was walking through a post-apocalyptic neighbourhood,” said Atish Saha, a Dhaka-based artist. “To be honest, I was scared. It was an image of mass violence that shouldn’t ever be experienced.”
Particularly jarring was said to be the sight of families, including infants, wading into the flood in celebratory “Eid day” moods. “It made me speechless,” he said.
Saha said the ritual slaughter was continuing in parts of the city on Wednesday.
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